This was taken a few minutes after sunrise with the sun just clearing the Cascade Mountains and lighting up the overnight haze and low lying fog patches. No retouching was done the color is close to reality.
To see what the conditions were like about 15 minutes before this image was started, phase take a look at this Gigapan - gigapan.com/gigapans/116056About the image: Taken with a Canon 50D, an EF 400 F5.6 prime lens and a 2x extender. No filters were used and no post-processing was applied other than stitching via PTgui. 84 images (6 x 14)